Coushatta Massacre: White League Assassinates Entire Republican Parish Government
On August 30, 1874, the White League—a paramilitary organization of Confederate veterans described as “the military arm of the Democratic Party”—completes a weeklong campaign of terror in Red River Parish, Louisiana, by assassinating six white Republican officeholders and five to twenty …
White League
Dick Coleman
Thomas Floyd
Marshall Twitchell
Louisiana Board of Trade
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